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A Show
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Project work - A show
1. Your school wants to put on a show at the end of term. The theme is ‘Famous people in history’. The show is called ‘That was his/her life'. Your teacher will divide the class into groups of four. As a group, decide which person to have the show on; why he/she became famous, what were his/her talents, his/her special skills. You might need to know: - where the person was born; - where the person lived as a child; - where the person studied; - what the person was like as a young man/woman; - what kinds of things the person did which make him or her different |
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2. Decide on different areas of responsibility for each member of the group: Student A can be responsible for collecting pictures and visuals and arranging the artwork. Student B can be responsible for finding out about the person when they were young. Student C can find out what great things the person did. Student D can be responsible for presenting the information to the class. |
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Each group will present their report and the class
members with the teacher will decide on which is the most
interesting and well presented. Use the fact file below to help you collect information about the person:
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Self-evaluation |
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Activity A
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Use the Past tense of the verbs on the left and match them with the nouns on the right to make phrases. | ||||
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Activity B
Write a question (Q) for each of the following answers (A). |
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1. Q. _________________________________________ A. Maria? She grew up in Bucharest. 2. Q. _________________________________________ A. Yes, I think she did have a pet when she wasyoung. 3. Q. _________________________________________ A. She left her village at the age of fifteen. 4. Q. _________________________________________ A. She became famous because she gave her life to the poor. 5. Q. _________________________________________ A. She died in a plane crash. |
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Activity C
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Decide on a historical film and report five differences
between the film and the real facts. Ask your family
members, friends and teachers in other subjects to help
you. Also, you can find information about such
differences on the internet site
http://www.libraryspot.com/features/historyinfilm.htm. |
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Self-evaluation |
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1. ..................................................................................................... 2. ..................................................................................................... 3. ..................................................................................................... 4. ..................................................................................................... 5. ..................................................................................................... |
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Activity D
Go on line to the internet site mentioned in Activity C and find the following information for the film Spartacus. |
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Activity E
Read the text about Gandhi and put the verbs in parentheses into the correct past form. |
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Mahatma Gandhi 1.(be) ………… a political and spiritual leader of India. He 2.(want) ………… India to be free from England and he 3.(begin ) ………… his campaign for India's freedom when he 4.(return) ………… from South Africa. Throughout his life he 5.(teach) ………… his followers that violence is wrong. He 6.(refuse) ………… to fight even when the British beat him on the ground. He was a student of Hindu philosophy and 7.(live) ………… a simple life. He 8.(make) ………… his own clothes and lived on a simple diet. He 9.(wear) ………… only the loincloth and shawl of the poorest members of society. He 10.(eat) ………… vegetables, fruit and goat's milk. On 30th January 1948, he 11.(die) ………… from a gunshot by a Hindu radical. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Now tick how well you can do the following:
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